Newsbreak: President of Haiti Jovenel Moïse murdered at home, wife in hospital
The President of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, Haiti has been assassinated.
He was killed today Wednesday.
He was the President elect Haitian businessman Jovenel Moise was elected in November 2016
Irohinoodua monitored media reports of his assassination in his home country.
Reports said he was killed after some armed men invaded his residence and killed him
His wife Lady Martine Moïse is currently in hospital due to the attack. The country’s interim Premier Claude Joseph confirmed the ugly incidence.
The interim Prime Minister described the attack as “hateful, inhumane and barbaric act.” He said Haiti’s National Police and other security operatives are in charge of the small Caribean country.
The Haitian Embassy in Canada also confirmed Moïse was killed in a tweet.
Reuters reported that the nation of more than 11 million people had grown increasingly unstable and disgruntled under Moïse’s rule. Its economic, political and social woes have deepened, with gang violence spiking heavily in the capital of Port-au-Prince, inflation spiraling and food and fuel becoming scarcer at times in a country where 60% of the population makes less than $2 a day. These troubles come as Haiti still tries to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake and Hurricane Matthew that struck in 2016.
Moïse, 53, had been ruling by decree for more than two years after the country failed to hold elections, which led to Parliament being dissolved. Opposition leaders have accused him of seeking to increase his power, including approving a decree that limited the powers of a court that audits government contracts and another that created an intelligence agency that answers only to the president.
In recent months, Reuters reported that opposition leaders demanded that he step down, arguing that his term legally ended in February 2021. Moïse and supporters maintained that his term began when he took office in early 2017, following a chaotic election that forced the appointment of a provisional president to serve during a year-long gap.
Haiti was scheduled to hold general elections later this year
